Record Number: 5983
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Idols' and 'Ecce Homo', to ignore the fact that they were tinged with madness... I adopted the watchword of 'intellectual honesty', and in its name committed every conceivable sin against honesty of feeling and honesty in the mere perception of the world... my Nietzscheanism was what psychologists call a 'compensation'. I ccould not face my life as it was, and so I took refuge in the fantasy of the Superman".'
Century:1900-1945
Date:unknown
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Glasgow
Type of Experience(Reader):
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solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:15 May 1887
Socio-Economic Group:Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation:later poet
Religion:Protestant
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Ecce Homo
Genre:Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5983
Source:Jonathan Rose
Editor:n/a
Title:The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Place of Publication:New Haven
Date of Publication:2001
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Page:429
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, (New Haven, 2001), p. 429, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5983, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
See Edwin Muir, 'The Story and the Fable' (1940), pp. 129-53.